Clay is a 8 + or - year old BMC. He's been a great start dog and for the past 3 years I have mainly hunted him solo, baying and shooting hogs or occasionally using a catch dog with him. He's one eyed but doesn't really affect him much. He can not be put in a dog box with another dog. No amount of electricity or other methods will stop him from growling or starting a fight with other dogs. He can be hunted with a pack of dogs though, but I have 2 young pups who have started to out start him and he will not go to a bay until you are within 100 yards or so of it. Just wont honor them. He is great for day time hunting in the heat of summer. I like to take him around stocks tanks in the afternoons. He has never over heated and I have killed many big boars over him. I currently have a couple of liters of pups out of him and don't want to just keep him for a stud dog or just feed him and not use him since I am more focused on younger up and coming pups/dogs. He would be perfect for somebody wanting to hunt a one out bay and shoot dog. But I don't know of anybody looking for one especially one on the down hill side. So what would you do?

Encinoman you are 3 dogs short. You need a squirrel dog, a bear dog, and a deer dog and you’ll pretty much have it all covered.


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I think I'm good with what I got lol. Although I'd trade all my bird dogs for bear dogs if we had bears down here . Maybe some day, there has been bears spotted in both duval and brooks county this year and seems there are a couple every year around zapata and starr counties. I doubt there will be a huntable population of them though in my life time, if ever. But honestly besides hunting coons and cats with my kids, one of the reasons I have hound  dogs is the dream of treeing a bear someday. May have to plan an out of state hunt sometime soon.

6 quail dogs/pointers
3 hog dogs,
3 cow dogs
2 coon/cat dogs
7 - 9 week old puppies out of my best hog dog and my best cow dog gyp

Like the title asks, when is the best time to castrate a boar for tusk growth?